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‘I have held that life in my hands’ >> Washington Post
My first morning in Forward Operating Base Lightning, Maj. Vance Trenkel, the Third Cavalry's public affairs officer, asked me to create a little good feeling and sketch someone wearing the Third Cav's Stetson. Of course I agreed, and made one plaintive request: it had to be some Clint Eastwood-looking crusty veteran of multiple conflicts. "I need to see the grit in the corners of his eyes," I said.

Man bikes across country to raise money for Veterans >> WRCB Chattanooga
Grehlinger is making his way across the country on two wheels. He's riding from Portland, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina, totaling close to 44-hundred miles in just 3 months. With every mile, he's raising money for Veteran's Best Friend, an organization that gives dogs to veterans suffering with PTSD.

Sports becoming popular therapy for vets >> U-T San Diego
"This guy," said Travis Schneider, pointing toward the big brown eyes of his service dog, Gibbs, a white Labrador retriever. And sports. These two things have made Schneider's life tolerable since he left the Navy in 2012. The former gunner's mate lives with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and a mild brain injury after nine months in Iraq in 2008.